Singapore legislation

Section 369

Report of certain persons

(1)

Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of any of the persons mentioned in subsection (2) upon any matter or thing duly submitted to him for examination or analysis or report may be used as evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code unless the court or the accused requires that person to be called as a witness:Provided that in any case in which the Public Prosecutor intends to give in evidence any such report he shall deliver a copy thereof to the accused not less than 10 clear days before the commencement of the inquiry, trial or other proceeding.

(2)

The following are persons to whom this section applies:

(a)

the Director of Scientific Services or any chief chemist, senior chemist or chemist employed by the government of Malaysia;

(b)

any pathologist or assistant pathologist employed by the Government;

(c)

the Government Bacteriologist;

(d)

the Commissioner of Parks and Trees;

(e)

any person appointed by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a document examiner;

(f)

any inspector of weights and measures duly appointed as such under the provisions of any written law;

(g)

any person or class of persons to whom the Minister by notification in the Gazette declares that this section shall apply.

(3)

Such persons are by this Code bound to state the truth in reports made under their hands.

(4)

A report of a person referred to in subsection (2) shall be admissible as evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein:Provided that where the accused person desires to examine that person on the report he may require the court to summon that person to give evidence and the court shall thereupon summon that person as a witness for the prosecution.[368

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